K Rivet Amico, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Health Behavior Health Education at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health. She is a psychologist by training and social-behavioral scientist with interests in the development, evaluation, and implementation of HIV treatment and prevention programs focused on health and wellbeing.
For over two decades, Dr. Amico has actively contributed to research contextualizing experiences living with HIV and HIV prevention in the social and structural environments in which people navigate care and self-care. She has worked with adult and adolescent populations, as well as expecting and breastfeeding women, domestically in the US and internationally. She has developed and co-developed a number of brief intervention protocols, models/frameworks, and approaches to optimize person-facing care in the context of clinical trials and the roll-out of biomedical prevention products.
Dr. Amico is the chair of the Social Behavioral Science Core for the IMPAACT Network, leads the Social Behavioral Science Division for the Mid-West Capacity Building Assistance (CBA) Provider Network, is active in the ATN, and collaborates with service providers in the Michigan area.
